February 22

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February 22 is the 53rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar ; 312 days remain until the end of the year(313 in leap years).

Events

Pre-1600

• 1076 – Having received a letter during the Lenten synod of 14–20 February demanding that he abdicate, ^[1] Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor. ^[2]
• 1316 – The Battle of Picotin, between Ferdinand of Majorca and the forces of Matilda of Hainaut, ends in victory for Ferdinand. ^[3]
• 1371 – Robert II becomes King of Scotland, beginning the Stuart dynasty. ^[4]
• 1495 – King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne. ^[5]

1601–1900

• 1632 – Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, the dedicatee, receives the first printed copy of Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems . ^[6]
• 1651 – St. Peter's Flood: A storm surge floods the Frisian coast, drowning 15,000 people. ^[7]
• 1744 – War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Toulon causes several Royal Navy captains to be court-martialed, and the Articles of War to be amended. ^[8]
• 1770 – British customs officer Ebenezer Richardson fires blindly into a crowd during a protest in North End, Boston, fatally wounding 11-year-old Christopher Seider; the first American fatality of the American Revolution. ^[9]
• 1797 – The last Invasion of Britain begins near Fishguard, Wales. ^[10]
• 1819 – By the Adams–Onís Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars. ^[11]
• 1847 – Mexican–American War: The Battle of Buena Vista: Five thousand American troops defeat 15,000 Mexican troops. ^[12]
• 1848 – The French Revolution of 1848, which would lead to the establishment of the French Second Republic, begins. ^[13]
• 1856 – The United States Republican Party opens its first national convention in Pittsburgh. ^[14]
• 1862 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia. He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861. ^[15]
• 1872 – The Prohibition Party holds its first national convention in Columbus, Ohio, nominating James Black as its presidential nominee. ^[16]
• 1879 – In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores. ^[17]
• 1881 – Cleopatra's Needle , a 3,500-year-old Ancient Egyptian obelisk is erected in Central Park, New York. ^[18]
• 1889 – President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states. ^[19]
• 1899 – Filipino forces led by General Antonio Luna launch counterattacks for the first time against the American forces during the Philippine–American War. The Filipinos fail to regain Manila from the Americans. ^[20]

1901–present

• 1904 – The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina; the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908. ^[21]
• 1909 – The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USS Connecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world. ^[22]
• 1921 – After Russian forces under Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg drive the Chinese out, the Bogd Khan is reinstalled as the emperor of Mongolia.^{[ citation needed ]}
• 1942 – World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable. ^[23]
• 1943 – World War II: Members of the White Rose resistance, Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and Christoph Probst are executed in Nazi Germany. ^[24]
• 1944 – World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone. ^[25]
• 1944 – World War II: The Soviet Red Army recaptures Krivoi Rog. ^[26]
• 1946 – The "Long Telegram", proposing how the United States should deal with the Soviet Union, arrives from the US embassy in Moscow. ^[27]
• 1957 – Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Buôn Ma Thuột. ^[28]
• 1958 – Following a plebiscite in both countries the previous day, Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic. ^[29]
• 1959 – Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500. ^[30]
• 1972 – The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others. ^[31]
• 1973 – Cold War: Following President Richard Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices. ^[32]
• 1974 – The Organisation of the Islamic Conference summit begins in Lahore, Pakistan. Thirty-seven countries attend and twenty-two heads of state and government participate. It also recognizes Bangladesh. ^[33]
• 1974 – Samuel Byck attempts to hijack an aircraft at Baltimore/Washington International Airport with the intention of crashing it into the White House to assassinate Richard Nixon, but commits suicide after being wounded by police. ^[34]
• 1979 – Saint Lucia gains independence from the United Kingdom. ^[35]
• 1980 – Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4–3. ^[36]
• 1983 – The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre. ^[37]
• 1986 – Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines. ^[38]
• 1994 – Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union. ^[39]
• 1995 – The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified. ^[40]
• 1997 – In Roslin, Midlothian, British scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly has been successfully cloned. ^[41]
• 2002 – Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush. ^[42]
• 2005 – The 6.4 M_w  Zarand earthquake shakes the Kerman Province of Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), leaving 612 people dead and 1,411 injured. ^[43]
• 2006 – At approximately 6:44 a.m. local Iraqi time, explosions occurred at the al-Askari Shrine in Samarra, Iraq. The attack on the shrine, one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam, caused the escalation of sectarian tensions in Iraq into a full-scale civil war. ^[44]
• 2006 – The Securitas depot robbery was the UK's largest heist. Almost £53m (about $92.5 million or €78 million) was stolen from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent. ^[45]
• 2011 – New Zealand's second deadliest earthquake strikes Christchurch, killing 185 people. ^[46]
• 2011 – Bahraini uprising: Tens of thousands of people march in protest against the deaths of seven victims killed by police and army forces during previous protests. ^[47]
• 2012 – A train crash in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 51 people and injures 700 others. ^[48]
• 2014 – President Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine is impeached by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine by a vote of 328–0, fulfilling a major goal of the Euromaidan rebellion. ^[49]
• 2015 – A ferry carrying 100 passengers capsizes in the Padma River, killing 70 people. ^[50]
• 2018 – A man throws a grenade at the U.S. embassy in Podgorica, Montenegro. He dies at the scene from a second explosion, with no one else hurt. ^[51]
• 2022 – Twosday, the name given to Tuesday, February 22, 2022, at 2:22:22, occurs. ^[52]

Births

Pre-1600

• 1040 – Rashi, French rabbi and author (d. 1105) ^[53]
• 1403 – Charles VII of France (d. 1461) ^[54]
• 1440 – Ladislaus the Posthumous, Hungarian king (d. 1457) ^[55]
• 1500 – Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian cardinal (d. 1564)
• 1514 – Tahmasp I, Iranian shah (d. 1576)
• 1520 – Moses Isserles, Polish rabbi (d. 1572)
• 1550 – Charles de Ligne, 2nd Prince of Arenberg (d. 1616)
• 1592 – Nicholas Ferrar, English scholar (d. 1637)

1601–1900

• 1631 – Peder Syv, Danish historian (d. 1702)
• 1649 – Bon Boullogne, French painter (d. 1717)
• 1715 – Charles-Nicolas Cochin, French artist (d. 1790)
• 1732 – George Washington, American general and politician, 1st President of the United States (d. 1799)
• 1749 – Johann Nikolaus Forkel, German musicologist and theorist (d. 1818)
• 1778 – Rembrandt Peale, American painter and curator (d. 1860)
• 1788 – Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher and author (d. 1860)
• 1796 – Alexis Bachelot, French priest and missionary (d. 1837)
• 1796 – Adolphe Quetelet, Belgian mathematician, astronomer, and sociologist (d. 1874)
• 1805 – Sarah Fuller Flower Adams, English poet and hymnwriter (d. 1848) ^[56]
• 1806 – Józef Kremer, Polish historian and philosopher (d. 1875)
• 1817 – Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, German mathematician and academic (d. 1880)
• 1819 – James Russell Lowell, American poet and critic (d. 1891)
• 1824 – Pierre Janssen, French astronomer and mathematician (d. 1907)
• 1825 – Jean-Baptiste Salpointe, French-American archbishop (d. 1898)
• 1836 – Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya, Indian scholar and academic (d. 1906)
• 1840 – August Bebel, German theorist and politician (d. 1913)
• 1849 – Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1915)
• 1857 – Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, English general, co-founded The Scout Association (d. 1941)
• 1857 – Heinrich Hertz, German physicist, philosopher, and academic (d. 1894)
• 1860 – Mary W. Bacheler, American physician and Baptist medical missionary (d. 1939) ^[57]
• 1861 – Lewis Akeley, American academic (d. 1961) ^[58]
• 1863 – Charles McLean Andrews, American historian, author, and academic (d. 1943)
• 1864 – Jules Renard, French author and playwright (d. 1910)
• 1874 – Bill Klem, American baseball player and umpire (d. 1951)
• 1876 – Zitkala-Sa, American author and activist (d. 1938)
• 1879 – Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, Danish chemist and academic (d. 1947)
• 1880 – Eric Lemming, Swedish athlete (d. 1930) ^[59]
• 1881 – Joseph B. Ely, American lawyer and politician, 52nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1956)
• 1881 – Albin Prepeluh, Slovenian journalist and politician (d. 1937)
• 1882 – Eric Gill, English sculptor and illustrator (d. 1940)
• 1883 – Marguerite Clark, American actress (d. 1940)
• 1886 – Hugo Ball, German author and poet (d. 1927) ^[60]
• 1887 – Savielly Tartakower, Polish journalist, author, and chess player (d. 1956)
• 1887 – Pat Sullivan, Australian-American animator and producer (d. 1933) ^[61]
• 1888 – Owen Brewster, American captain and politician, 54th Governor of Maine (d. 1961)
• 1889 – Olave Baden-Powell, English scout leader, first World Chief Guide (d. 1977)
• 1889 – R. G. Collingwood, English historian and philosopher (d. 1943)
• 1891 – Vlas Chubar, Russian economist and politician (d. 1939)
• 1892 – Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet and playwright (d. 1950)
• 1895 – Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Peruvian politician (d. 1979)
• 1897 – Karol Świerczewski, Polish general (d. 1947)
• 1899 – George O'Hara, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1966)
• 1900 – Luis Buñuel, Spanish-Mexican director and producer (d. 1983)

1901–present

• 1903 – Morley Callaghan, Canadian author and playwright (d. 1990) ^[62]
• 1903 – Frank P. Ramsey, English economist, mathematician, and philosopher (d. 1930) ^[63]
• 1906 – Constance Stokes, Australian painter (d. 1991)
• 1907 – Sheldon Leonard, American actor, director, and producer (d. 1997) ^[64]
• 1907 – Robert Young, American actor (d. 1998) ^[64]
• 1908 – Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan politician, 56th President of Venezuela (d. 1981)
• 1908 – John Mills, English actor (d. 2005) ^[65]
• 1910 – George Hunt, English footballer (d. 1996) ^[66]
• 1914 – Renato Dulbecco, Italian-American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)
• 1915 – Gus Lesnevich, American boxer (d. 1964)
• 1918 – Sid Abel, Canadian-American ice hockey player, coach, and manager (d. 2000)
• 1918 – Don Pardo, American radio and television announcer (d. 2014) ^[64]
• 1918 – Robert Wadlow, American man, the tallest person in recorded history (d. 1940)
• 1921 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Central African general and politician, 2nd President of the Central African Republic (d. 1996)
• 1921 – Giulietta Masina, Italian actress (d. 1994)
• 1921 – Marshall Teague, American race car driver (d. 1959)
• 1922 – Zenaida Manfugás, Cuban pianist (d. 2012) ^[67]
• 1922 – Joe Wilder, American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader (d. 2014)
• 1923 – François Cavanna, French author and editor (d. 2014)
• 1923 – Bleddyn Williams, Welsh rugby player and sportscaster (d. 2009)
• 1925 – Edward Gorey, American illustrator and poet (d. 2000)
• 1925 – Gerald Stern, American poet and academic (d. 2022)
• 1926 – Kenneth Williams, English actor and screenwriter (d. 1988)
• 1927 – Florencio Campomanes, Filipino political scientist and chess player (d. 2010)
• 1927 – Guy Mitchell, American singer (d. 1999)
• 1928 – Clarence 13X, American religious leader, founded the Nation of Gods and Earths (d. 1969)
• 1928 – Texas Johnny Brown, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
• 1928 – Paul Dooley, American actor ^[68]
• 1928 – Bruce Forsyth, English singer and television host (d. 2017)
• 1928 – Thomas E. Kurtz, American computer scientist and educator (d. 2024) ^[69]
• 1929 – James Hong, American actor and director
• 1929 – Rebecca Schull, American stage, film, and television actress
• 1930 – Marni Nixon, American soprano and actress (d. 2016)
• 1932 – Ted Kennedy, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (d. 2009) ^[64]
• 1932 – Zenaida Manfugás, Cuban-born American-naturalized pianist (d. 2012)
• 1933 – Sheila Hancock, English actress and author
• 1933 – Katharine, Duchess of Kent
• 1933 – Ernie K-Doe, American R&B singer (d. 2001)
• 1933 – Bobby Smith, English footballer (d. 2010) ^[70]
• 1934 – Sparky Anderson, American baseball player and manager (d. 2010)
• 1936 – J. Michael Bishop, American microbiologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1937 – Tommy Aaron, American golfer
• 1937 – Joanna Russ, American author and activist (d. 2011)
• 1938 – Steve Barber, American baseball player (d. 2007)
• 1938 – Tony Macedo, Gibraltarian born English footballer ^[71]
• 1938 – Ishmael Reed, American poet, novelist, essayist
• 1940 – Judy Cornwell, English actress
• 1940 – Chet Walker, American basketball player (d. 2024)
• 1941 – Hipólito Mejía, Dominican politician, 52nd President of the Dominican Republic
• 1942 – Christine Keeler, English model and dancer (d. 2017)
• 1943 – Terry Eagleton, English philosopher and critic
• 1943 – Horst Köhler, Polish-German economist and politician, 9th President of Germany
• 1943 – Dick Van Arsdale, American basketball player
• 1943 – Tom Van Arsdale, American basketball player
• 1943 – Otoya Yamaguchi, Japanese assassin of Inejiro Asanuma (d. 1960)
• 1944 – Jonathan Demme, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2017) ^[64]
• 1944 – Mick Green, English guitarist (d. 2010)
• 1944 – Robert Kardashian, American lawyer and businessman (d. 2003)
• 1944 – Christopher Meyer, English diplomat, British Ambassador to the United States (d. 2022)
• 1944 – Tom Okker, Dutch tennis player and painter ^[72]
• 1945 – Oliver, American pop singer (d. 2000)
• 1946 – Kresten Bjerre, Danish footballer and manager (d. 2014)
• 1947 – Pirjo Honkasalo, Finnish director, cinematographer, and screenwriter
• 1947 – Harvey Mason, American drummer
• 1947 – John Radford, English footballer and manager
• 1947 – Frank Van Dun, Belgian philosopher and theorist
• 1948 – John Ashton, American actor (d. 2024) ^[68]
• 1948 – Dennis Awtrey, American basketball player ^[73]
• 1949 – John Duncan, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 2022) ^[74]
• 1949 – Niki Lauda, Austrian racing driver (d. 2019) ^[75]
• 1949 – Olga Morozova, Russian tennis player and coach
• 1950 – Julius Erving, American basketball player and sportscaster ^[76]
• 1950 – Lenny Kuhr, Dutch singer-songwriter
• 1950 – Miou-Miou, French actress
• 1950 – Genesis P-Orridge, English singer-songwriter (d. 2020) ^[77]
• 1950 – Julie Walters, English actress and author ^[78]
• 1951 – Ellen Greene, American singer and actress ^[68]
• 1952 – Bill Frist, American physician and politician ^[79]
• 1952 – Joaquim Pina Moura, Portuguese Minister of Economy and Treasury and MP (d. 2020) ^[80]
• 1952 – Saufatu Sopoanga, Tuvaluan politician, 8th Prime Minister of Tuvalu (d. 2020) ^[81]
• 1953 – Nigel Planer, English actor and screenwriter
• 1955 – David Axelrod, American journalist and political adviser
• 1955 – Tim Young, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1957 – Willie Smits, Dutch microbiologist and engineer
• 1958 – Dave Spitz, American bass player and songwriter
• 1959 – Jiří Čunek, Czech politician
• 1959 – Kyle MacLachlan, American actor ^[68]
• 1959 – Bronwyn Oliver, Australian sculptor (d. 2006)
• 1959 – Harry Leary, American BMX racer (d. 2024) ^[82]
• 1960 – Thomas Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde, Scottish politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
• 1961 – Akira Takasaki, Japanese guitarist, songwriter, and producer
• 1962 – Steve Irwin, Australian zoologist and television host (d. 2006) ^[64]
• 1963 – Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis, English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Transport ^[83]
• 1963 – Devon Malcolm, Jamaican-English cricketer
• 1963 – Vijay Singh, Fijian-American golfer ^[64]
• 1964 – Diane Charlemagne, English singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
• 1964 – Andy Gray, English footballer and manager ^[84]
• 1965 – Chris Dudley, American basketball player ^[85]
• 1965 – Kieren Fallon, Irish jockey
• 1965 – Pat LaFontaine, American ice hockey player ^[86]
• 1966 – Rachel Dratch, American actress and comedian ^[87]
• 1967 – Paul Lieberstein, American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer ^[68]
• 1967 – Psicosis II, Mexican wrestler
• 1968 – Shawn Graham, Canadian politician, 31st Premier of New Brunswick
• 1968 – Jeri Ryan, American model and actress
• 1968 – Kazuhiro Sasaki, Japanese baseball player ^[88]
• 1968 – Jayson Williams, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1969 – Thomas Jane, American actor ^[89]
• 1969 – Brian Laudrup, Danish footballer and sportscaster ^[90]
• 1969 – Marc Wilmots, Belgian footballer and manager ^[91]
• 1971 – Lea Salonga, Filipino actress and singer ^[92]
• 1972 – Michael Chang, American tennis player and coach
• 1972 – Claudia Pechstein, German speed skater ^[93]
• 1972 – Haim Revivo, Israeli footballer ^[94]
• 1972 – Ben Sasse, American politician and college administrator ^[95]
• 1973 – Philippe Gaumont, French cyclist (d. 2013)
• 1973 – Juninho Paulista, Brazilian footballer
• 1973 – Scott Phillips, American musician and songwriter ^[68]
• 1974 – James Blunt, English singer-songwriter and guitarist ^[68]
• 1974 – Chris Moyles, English radio and television host
• 1975 – Drew Barrymore, American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter ^[96]
• 1977 – Hakan Yakin, Swiss footballer
• 1979 – Brett Emerton, Australian footballer ^[97]
• 1979 – Lee Na-young, South Korean actress
• 1980 – Jeanette Biedermann, German singer-songwriter and actress
• 1983 – Brian Duensing, American baseball player ^[98]
• 1983 – Shaun Tait, Australian cricketer
• 1984 – Tommy Bowe, Irish rugby player ^[99]
• 1984 – Branislav Ivanović, Serbian footballer
• 1985 – Hamer Bouazza, Algerian footballer ^[100]
• 1985 – Georgios Printezis, Greek basketball player ^[101]
• 1985 – Zach Roerig, American actor ^[68]
• 1986 – Rajon Rondo, American basketball player ^[102]
• 1987 – Han Hyo-joo, South Korean actress and model
• 1987 – Sergio Romero, Argentine footballer ^[103]
• 1988 – Jonathan Borlée, Belgian sprinter ^[104]
• 1989 – Franco Vázquez, Argentine footballer ^[105]
• 1991 – Khalil Mack, American football player ^[106]
• 1992 – Dixon Machado, Venezuelan baseball player ^[107]
• 1994 – Nam Joo-hyuk, South Korean model and actor ^[108]
• 1994 – Elfrid Payton, American basketball player ^[109]
• 1995 – Devonte' Graham, American basketball player ^[110]
• 1996 – Kia Nurse, Canadian basketball player ^[111]
• 1997 – Jerome Robinson, American basketball player ^[112]
• 1997 – Ilya Samsonov, Russian ice hockey player ^[113]

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 556 – Maximianus, bishop of Ravenna (b. 499)
• 606 – Sabinian, pope of the Catholic Church
• 793 – Sicga, Anglo-Saxon nobleman and regicide
• 845 – Wang, Chinese empress dowager
• 954 – Guo Wei, Chinese emperor (b. 904)
• 965 – Otto, duke of Burgundy (b. 944)
• 970 – García I, king of Pamplona
• 978 – Lambert, count of Chalon (b. 930)
• 1071 – Arnulf III, count of Flanders
• 1072 – Peter Damian, Italian cardinal
• 1079 – John of Fécamp, Italian Benedictine abbot
• 1111 – Roger Borsa, king of Sicily (b. 1078) ^[114]
• 1297 – Margaret of Cortona, Italian penitent (b. 1247)
• 1371 – David II, king of Scotland (b. 1324)
• 1452 – William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas (b. 1425)
• 1500 – Gerhard VI, German nobleman (b. 1430)
• 1511 – Henry, duke of Cornwall (b. 1511)
• 1512 – Amerigo Vespucci, Italian cartographer and explorer (b. 1454) ^[115]

1601–1900

• 1627 – Olivier van Noort, Dutch explorer (b. 1558)
• 1674 – Jean Chapelain, French poet and critic (b. 1595)
• 1680 – La Voisin, French occultist (b. 1640)
• 1690 – Charles Le Brun, French painter and theorist (b. 1619)
• 1731 – Frederik Ruysch, Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1638)
• 1732 – Francis Atterbury, English bishop (b. 1663)
• 1770 – Christopher Seider, first American killed in the American Revolution (b. 1758) ^[9]
• 1799 – Heshen, Chinese politician (b. 1750)
• 1816 – Adam Ferguson, Scottish historian and philosopher (b. 1723)
• 1875 – Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French painter and illustrator (b. 1796)
• 1875 – Charles Lyell, Scottish geologist (b. 1797) ^[116]
• 1888 – Anna Kingsford, English physician and activist (b. 1846)
• 1890 – John Jacob Astor III, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1822)
• 1890 – Carl Bloch, Danish painter and academic (b. 1834)
• 1897 – Charles Blondin, French tightrope walker and acrobat (b. 1824)
• 1898 – Heungseon Daewongun, Korean king (b. 1820)

1901–present

• 1903 – Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (b. 1860)
• 1904 – Leslie Stephen, English historian, author, and critic (b. 1832)
• 1913 – Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist and author (b. 1857)
• 1913 – Francisco I. Madero, Mexican president and author (b. 1873)
• 1923 – Théophile Delcassé, French politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1852)
• 1939 – Antonio Machado, Spanish-French poet and author (b. 1875)
• 1942 – Stefan Zweig, Austrian journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1881)
• 1943 – Christoph Probst, German activist (b. 1919)
• 1943 – Hans Scholl, German activist (b. 1918)
• 1943 – Sophie Scholl, German activist (b. 1921)
• 1944 – Kasturba Gandhi, Indian activist (b. 1869)
• 1944 – Fritz Schmenkel, anti-Nazi German who joined Soviet partisans (b. 1916) ^{[117] [118]}
• 1945 – Osip Brik, Russian avant garde writer and literary critic (b. 1888)
• 1958 – Abul Kalam Azad, Indian scholar and politician, Indian Minister of Education (b. 1888)
• 1960 – Paul-Émile Borduas, Canadian-French painter and critic (b. 1905)
• 1961 – Nick LaRocca, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1889)
• 1965 – Felix Frankfurter, Austrian-American lawyer and jurist (b. 1882)
• 1971 – Frédéric Mariotti, French actor (b. 1883)
• 1973 – Jean-Jacques Bertrand, Canadian lawyer and politician, 21st Premier of Quebec (b. 1916)
• 1973 – Elizabeth Bowen, Anglo-Irish author (b. 1899)
• 1973 – Katina Paxinou, Greek actress (b. 1900)
• 1973 – Winthrop Rockefeller, American colonel and politician, 37th Governor of Arkansas (b. 1912)
• 1976 – Angela Baddeley, English actress (b. 1904)
• 1976 – Florence Ballard, American singer (b. 1943)
• 1980 – Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian painter, poet and playwright (b. 1886)
• 1982 – Josh Malihabadi, Indian-Pakistani poet and author (b. 1898)
• 1983 – Adrian Boult, English conductor (b. 1889)
• 1983 – Romain Maes, Belgian cyclist (b. 1913)
• 1985 – Salvador Espriu, Spanish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1913)
• 1985 – Efrem Zimbalist, Russian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1889)
• 1986 – John Donnelly, Australian rugby league player (b. 1955)
• 1987 – David Susskind, American talk show host and producer (b. 1920)
• 1987 – Andy Warhol, American painter and photographer (b. 1928)
• 1992 – Markos Vafiadis, Greek general and politician (b. 1906)
• 1994 – Papa John Creach, American violinist (b. 1917)
• 1995 – Ed Flanders, American actor (b. 1934)
• 1997 – Joseph Aiuppa, American gangster (b. 1907)
• 1998 – Abraham A. Ribicoff, American lawyer and politician, 4th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (b. 1910)
• 1999 – William Bronk, American poet and academic (b. 1918)
• 1999 – Menno Oosting, Dutch tennis player (b. 1964)
• 2002 – Chuck Jones, American animator, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1912)
• 2002 – Jonas Savimbi, Angolan general, founded UNITA (b. 1934)
• 2004 – Andy Seminick, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1920)
• 2005 – Lee Eun-ju, South Korean actress and singer (b. 1980)
• 2005 – Simone Simon, French actress (b. 1910)
• 2006 – S. Rajaratnam, Singaporean politician, 1st Senior Minister of Singapore (b. 1915) ^[119]
• 2007 – George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe, English politician, Leader of the House of Lords (b. 1918)
• 2007 – Dennis Johnson, American basketball player and coach (b. 1954)
• 2012 – Sukhbir, Indian author and poet (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Frank Carson, Irish-English comedian and actor (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Marie Colvin, American journalist (b. 1956)
• 2012 – Rémi Ochlik, French photographer and journalist (b. 1983)
• 2013 – Atje Keulen-Deelstra, Dutch speed skater (b. 1938)
• 2013 – Jean-Louis Michon, French-Swiss scholar and translator (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Wolfgang Sawallisch, German pianist and conductor (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Charlotte Dawson, New Zealand–Australian television host (b. 1966)
• 2014 – Trebor Jay Tichenor, American pianist and composer (b. 1940)
• 2014 – Leo Vroman, Dutch-American hematologist, poet, and illustrator (b. 1915)
• 2015 – Chris Rainbow, Scottish singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1946)
• 2016 – Yolande Fox, American model and singer, Miss America 1951 (b. 1928)
• 2016 – Sonny James, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1928)
• 2018 – Forges, Spanish cartoonist (b. 1942)
• 2019 – Brody Stevens, American comedian and actor (b. 1970) ^[120]
• 2019 – Morgan Woodward, American actor (b. 1925) ^[121]
• 2021 – Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American poet, painter (b. 1919) ^[122]
• 2024 – John Lowe, English musician, pianist for The Quarrymen (b. 1942) ^[123]

Holidays and observances

• Birthday of Scouting and Guiding founder Robert Baden-Powell and Olave Baden-Powell, and its related observance:
  • Founder's Day or "B.-P. day" (World Organization of the Scout Movement)
  • World Thinking Day (World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts)
• Christian feast day:
  • Baradates
  • Eric Liddell (Episcopal Church (USA))
  • Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter (Roman Catholic Church)
  • Margaret of Cortona
  • February 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Crime Victims Day (Europe)
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom in 1979.
• Founding Day (Saudi Arabia) ^[124]
• Washington's Birthday, federal holiday in the United States. A holiday on February 22 as well as the third Monday in February. ^[125]
• National Cat Day (Japan)

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External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• Historical Events on February 22